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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 21:02:09 JST Aral Balkan

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   • TobiWanKenobi
   • Fabio G.

   @magitweeter @TobiWanKenobi That’s representative democracy. And, in certain places, even worse, a two-party representative democracy. They’re far from the only possible ways of implementing democracy. In fact, you might argue that they are not democratic at all. Leading us down the spiral of lesser of two evils which ends up fascism.

   • Fabio G. (magitweeter@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 21:02:10 JST Fabio G.

     • TobiWanKenobi

     @TobiWanKenobi @aral

     I believe part of the reason why voters stop protecting democracy from fascism is that democracy inherently sort of sucks.

     How democracy works is it takes away people's self-management and hands it over to elected representatives. Even when those representatives do a perfect job, that loss of control eventually leads to unhappiness, which in turn leads to people no longer caring about the protection of democracy.